/usr/share/dict/words not found on 5.0

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Wed Aug 13 12:27:45 PDT 2003


george donnelly <list at zettai.net> writes:

> [Lowell Gilbert wrote (freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com) on 8/13/03
> 1:24 PM]
> 
> >> you need to install /usr/share/dict/words from the 'dict' distribution first
> >> (This is done using /stand/sysinstall.  The 'textproc/dict' port in the
> >> ports tree is NOT what you need.)
> > 
> > Please be more precise on what kind of help you need in following
> > these directions.
> 
> I do not see anything in sysintall related to this. What menu/heading is
> this under in sysinstall?

  Configure    Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD 
then
  Distributions    Install additional distribution sets
then 
  [ ]  dict      Spelling checker dictionary files     

It may not be exactly like this in 5.0, but that's part of why 5.x is
so far recommended for people who have a pretty good idea of what
they're doing.


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